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Message management facility for an industrial process control environment

  • US 20060168013A1
  • Filed: 11/26/2004
  • Published: 07/27/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A message management facility within a node, in a process control network environment, separate from a control processor for routing a stream of messages received from the control processor to a set of supervisory destinations, the message management facility comprising:

  • a message receiver for receiving a message including a message group ID field;

    message routing information comprising a set of message routing entries, wherein each routing entry includes;

    a message group ID value, and a set of message routing destinations for received messages specifying the message group ID; and

    a destination server for transmitting the message received by the message receiver to one or more network destinations in accordance with an ID specified in the message group ID field and a set of message routing destinations specified in a corresponding routing entry of the message routing information.

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